The Allen Ginsberg-Barry Farber radio transcription that we’ve been serializing continues and concludes today
BF: I want (you) to read from the Table of Contents, like the virtuous…
AG: (It’s) a bit long, like eight minutes or so. Something.. And I had been used, generally, on television, to be told[…]

Drawing this weekend from the remarkable Stanford archives. We begin with a tape from 1976, Allen and company in conversation with conservative talk-show host Barry Farber, a two-hour radio appearance (We’ll be featuring it in segments – In the first, today,[…]

August 10 – Fifty years ago today. Allen in London, writing to his beloved, Peter (Orlovsky) in New York City, warning him, pleading with him, about amphetamines (“meth”) – “I’d rather be with you than without you. Stop meth, cool everything, come over here”
Dear Peter,
Irving (Rosenthal) wrote and Barbara (Rubin)[…]

A real treat this weekend – with gratitude to Robyn Brentano and students from the NYU Ethnographic Film Program – “Buddhism and the Beats.”. “In 1993, Allen Ginsberg spoke to a gathering of students of the Tibetan Buddhist monk, Lobsang Samten, about the impact of Buddhist thought and practice on himself, the[…]

Excited to have received early advance copies of Pat Thomas‘ remarkable follow-up to the The Last Word on First Blues CD-set, (release-date isn’t until June 23) – the two-CD re-packaging of the Blake[…]

Allen Ginsberg and Peter Orlovsky read and sang a selection of their poetry at Warwick Arts Center on November 6th, 1979. The performances were recorded (along with a further performance at the University of Warwick that night, featuring English poet, Tom Pickard). Steven Taylor was[…]

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“Mugging”, we featured yesterday. Here’s the rest of Allen’s reading from 1977 at the University of Cincinnati
The opening chant, (a long mantric repetition of (shri ram jai ram jai jai rama), is followed by a rendition of William Blake’s “Spring”, (“Words by William Blake, tune by myself, dances by yourself,[…]